Harry Potter fans can now explore the set of Diagon Alley - the row of shops that sell wizarding goods in the books and films - on Google Street View.
Scientist form 11 institutions, including the renowned Jodrell Bank observatory, have launched a network that will help those working in different fields of research to share their expertise. Telescopes will listen in for radio and light ‘broadcasts’ beamed out by TVs, radios, satellites, radar and lasers from other worlds. ...read
Scientists from the University of Chicago have doubled previous estimates about the number of alien planets in the habitable zone of red dwarf stars.
Transmitters on train windows in Germany send high-frequency vibrations to windowpanes allowing commuters resting their heads against the glass to hear advertising messages through bone conduction.
Applying just a thin layer of the tasteless substance – known as Liquiglide - to the inside of the bottle creates a slippery surface allowing the contents to slide straight out.
The Oculus Rift headset from Icelandic developers EVR is fitted with a seven inch visor that converts flat TV screen images of video games into a virtual reality world using a high-resolution stereoscopic 3D screen.
Apple has filed a patent for a pair of headphones that automatically adjust the volume of music if they're not inserted far enough into the ear. It could see an end to the 'leaky' headphones that let out loud music.
British Airways is trialling reusable electronic bag tags that do away with the need for a new sticky label each time you fly. The electronic barcode on the tag changes for each journey to show the latest flight details.
Dutch planetary scientist Wim van Westrenen has proposed that a giant explosion equivalent to 40 billion atomic bombs originating from the Earth's core somehow led to the formation of the moon.
The 'master key' that gives hackers control of Android phones and tablets has been present since 2009, according to a research firm that says it told Google about the problem in February.
Meal left-overs from 24,000 years ago helped scientists from Oxford University and the Gibraltar museum to conclude our ancestors used a network of small caves for hunting but returned to a larger base they called home.
The iPhone 5 was the most criticised handset on social networks after its launch in 2012, according to analysts We Are Social. Samsung's Galaxy S4 received the least amount of negative comments.
People are being forced to pay up to £170 million a year more for broadband simply because of where they live. The best counties for choice, speed and price were Greater Manchester and Hertfordshire, while Herefordshire and Rutland were the worst. The research from Broadbandchoices.co.uk found that in some case families are paying more than double their neighbours, despite living just 50 yards apart.
A Royal College of Art graduate has created a structure that could transform the BT Tower into a sustainable biofuel source. The carbon fibre and steel rigging design would be attached to the top of the 581ft building in London and would capture carbon dioxide from air pollution and convert it into natural gas fuel by using water and sunlight.
Twitter has announced it is going to start using browser cookies that track what websites its users visit in a bid to personalise the adverts that appear on the site and in people's feeds.
Tiny moon Phobos is photographed 86 times in half an hour by Nasa's rover to create a fascinating video capturing the Martian moonrise.
EXCLUSIVE: The Great British Geek Calculator asks 10 questions about gadgets and lifestyle to see whether you're tech rich, a social addict or TV worshipper.
A Slovenian designer has created a range of pinhole cameras carved out of chestnut and maple wood. The cameras are held together by magnets and come in six different dimensions and film sizes starting at £46.
Lecturer Theodore D. Moustakas from Boston University is suing Apple for patent infringement. He claims he designed the film used on the chips inside the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air in 1995.
The Silbo language - a whistled form of Spanish - used to be spoken by communities living on the Canary Island of La Gomera in the 16th century to communicate over long distances.
The 49-year-old, who had recently travelled to Saudi Arabia, was admitted to intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital in central London in September with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-nCV).
Researchers from Imperial College London distinguished between tweets from human, managed or automated accounts simply by their timing.
An animal behaviour expert from Kent decided to test the stubbornness of mules by setting up a problem-solving task - and results showed that mules were faster in their initial learning than both donkeys and horses.
The ball contains a pendulum-like mechanism, which captures the kinetic energy generated during normal play, and stores it in the ball for later use as an off-grid power source.
Undergraduate Alex Kirton, 19, suddenly came across a 1,800-year-old stone head of a Roman God during a dig at Binchester Roman Fort, near Bishop Auckland, Co Durham. The sandstone head, which dates from the 2nd or 3rd century AD, is likely to represent the war-like Antenociticus, a Celtic god worshipped as a way of inspiring troops about to go into battle.
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Knitic's scarf designs are created by linking a person's head up to a monitor and measuring the electronic impulses in their mind. These are then translated into a graph and created on knitting machine. The designers have named the process 'neuro knitting' and each line of wool in the scarf equates to one second of brain activity.
Mathematician Samuel Arbesman claims a German chemist misplaced a decimal point, making the iron content in spinach ten times more generous than in reality.
Professor Nick Chater from Warwick Business School claims that if someone is questioned about climate change on a day in June when it is colder than expected, or raining, they will be more sceptical.
Language experts say that the move away from swear words describing sex and bodily function to skin colour and body size show we are less tolerant of cruelty.
Dr Gareth Fraser, from the University of Sheffield, believes that beaks like those of pufferfish are 'far more robust and practical.' He also believes that renewable teeth may be just 50 years away.
Scientists from Duke University have found that this shared link confuses us makes us more likely to impulsively buy things even if we don't need them or can't afford them.
Network provider Everything Everywhere has announced it is launching its double-speed 4G network to cities including Bristol, Derby and Cardiff. The boost will make UK's 4G network the best in Europe.
Researchers from Cascadia Research Collective, Washington, found that underwater military sonar systems really do change the behaviour of blue whales.
Molecular biologists at the Monell Centre in Philadelphia have discovered a link between male infertility and proteins that allow us to taste flavours.
Over 200 people in relationships were surveyed daily by Duke University for 30 days. Researchers discovered people exaggerate how interested in sex they are, with the tendency being stronger for men than women.
Archeologists in Israel have dug up the earliest evidence of floral tributes being used in ceremonial burials. They say that sage, mint and other plants were used in ceremonial burials.
Diana Carney, an economist, green guru and wife of the new Governor of the Bank of England has attacked teabags as being a threat to the environment.
The researchers, from the University of Waterloo, Canada, also believe that sounds may play a critical role in disguising losses as wins.
While apologising like Lance Armstrong (pictured) can lessen feelings of guilt and help restore a wrongdoer's image, it seems declining to can have even more powerful psychological benefits.
Apple's iPhone 5S could be announced on 10 September and go on sale 10 days later, according to the International Business Times. A cheaper iPhone 6 is also expected to launch later that month.
The Mallard locomotive is reuniting with its five sister trains at the National Railway Museum in York this week to celebrate 75 years since the steam engine broke the world steam speed record in Grantham in 1938.
Dr Luigi Piccardi has claimed that Nessie sightings can be explained by bubbles produced by geological activity far beneath the mysterious waters of Loch Ness.
A skeleton found buried inside a stone coffin beneath Lincoln Castle could belong to a Saxon king or a bishop dating back to around 900AD. Archaeologists have used endoscopic cameras to study the fragile remains.
Astrobiologist Jack O'Malley-James from the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, says that in a billion years there will be too little carbon dioxide on Earth to support plants, which means life will die out.
Scientists at Princeton University, pictured right, have devised a way to produce an ear-shaped chunk of silicone mixed with bovine cells and infused with tiny particles of silver that form a coiled antenna. Like any antenna, this one can pick up radio signals that the ear will interpret as sound. The 3-D ear, pictured left, is not designed to replace a human one, though the research is meant to explore a new method of combining electronics with biological material.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has become the first person to control a robot on earth from space.
Sameer Doshi, 32, from Illinois, was left permanently blind by an incorrect dosage of steroid drops during cataract surgery. But he refused to let his lack of sight hold him back from challenges.
Everything we think we know about smartphone batteries could be wrong, according to tech website Gizmodo. The site has debunked some of the myths around battery life - including never letting it fully charge.
Rich Lee, from Nevada, U.S., had small magnets implanted into the cartilage near his ears and built a coil to wear around his neck. He claims this creates a magnetic field which causes the implant to vibrate and make a sound.
The Pocket Spacecraft project lets intrepid space explorers design, build and launch their own tiny spacecraft and hitch a ride to the moon.
New mapping service what3words has divided the world into 57 trillion locations and assigned each point a three-word code. This code can be used to precisely pinpoint addresses with an accuracy of two metres.
'Clocky' the robotic alarm jumps off your bedside table and runs across the floor on two wheels, leaving big sleepers with no choice but to go after it.
The supermarket has teamed up with Vodafone to launch a mobile network. The network, called Mobile by Sainsbury's, will be available from the summer and offer Nectar points. Prices have not yet been announced.
Dutch researchers say that when faced with the choice of sacrificing time and energy for a loved one or taking the self-centred route, our nearest and dearest come first for those who are most impulsive.
Research In Motion shares plummeted today because the company posted a loss in the first quarter of this financial year. It also warned that it is likely to experience further losses in the second quarter.
Analysis of bones 100 million years old showed baby Psittacosaurus had long arms and short legs, which were used to scuttle around shortly after hatching, say scientists reporting in the journal Nature Communications.
The performance of an ion propulsion rocket engine that has run continuously for a staggering 48,000 hours has exceeded the requirements for any anticipated Nasa science space mission.
In recent years, passengers have been allowed to use a mobile or laptop if aircraft is safely flying above 10,000ft. BA passengers will now be able to use electronic devices after they land and are taxiing on the runway.
Researchers from San Diego and Switzerland have developed contact lenses which, when worn with Samsung 3D glasses, give the wearer telescopic vision. It has been designed to restore blind people's sight.
A Californian-based car company has designed the world's fastest amphibious car called the Panther that goes from a car to a boat within 15 seconds and is capable of speeds of up to 45mph on water.
A patent official has said that Apple has applied for the trademark, which suggests that the iPhone maker is moving ahead with plans for a watch-like device.
The University of Leicester will spend a month excavating the ruins of the Grey Friars Church to better understand the architecture, layout and inhabitants of the medieval friary where Richard III was buried.
Apple has added a feature to its new iOS 7 software that lets users swipe between menus, select apps and control their device's screen using head movements. The feature is found in the Accessibility menu.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
The eco-friendly Levitation bike, pictured, from Missouri-based firm Dezien is made from the same material used in kitchen workshops and has a USB port hidden in the handlebars. As the pedals turn, energy is stored in a built-in battery that is then used to charge mobile devices and even electric cars. The bike also doubles up as a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Looking like an advert for a well-funded Silicon Valley start-up, a slick promo video for Atlantis boasts that it is 'the world's best anonymous online drug marketplace'
The Ministry of Defence has announced a multimillion-pound deal to supply the Royal Navy with unmanned surveillance aircraft. The ScanEagle craft flies over ships collecting intelligence and scanning local areas.
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